The Onion’s Best (Fake) Stories About MIT

This (fake) MIT professor has no idea which Tetris block will come next. Image: The Onion.

For more than 25 years, the news satire group The Onion has poked fun at nearly every major institution or public figure, and MIT is no exception. More than 50 stories included mentions of the Institute on the Onion’s website.

“In clinical trials, we discovered 100 percent of test subjects were oblivious to the fact that they are and always have been thoughtful, intelligent, and gorgeous, inside and out,” said sensitive MIT scientist Sidney Kaplan.

“They said we were mad to attempt such an unholy ambition by the century’s end,” said MIT mad scientist Dr. Otto Von Verruchtheit. “Fools, all of them! However, in this case, they were actually right.”

As you’re saying that all of these stories are fake, should we understand you could predict the upcoming Tetris blocks for the next 5 to 10 sec, or simply you’ve never made a statement on that topic? And if you haven’t made such a statment, and you can’t predicts the next 4 or 5 Tetris blocks, doesn’t this make the story somehow true? These are just a few things I’m wondering about, and would love to learn the answers.